skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of this information is a bit outdated.

Horses were reintroduced by Spaniards, but precolumbian mobility was not what we'd call minimal today and adoption of horses in the plains was deeply tied to political changes from Spanish colonialism in the southwest. As one example, people would make annual pilgrimages hundreds of miles across the desert from modern Phoenix to the gulfs of California and Mexico. People in the Northeast would travel hundreds of miles on their waterways for social visits. There was a vast trade network spanning the continent from the arctic down to South America, and the Pacific to the Atlantic.

Epidemic disease also didn't spread in advance of European contact. The demographic shattering diseases that led to those (fairly questionable) population loss figures happened after sustained European contact. Some regional disease slightly preceded contact, but we think they were fairly minor events demographically. Textbooks and popular media haven't caught up with the new work in this area though, like: https://doi.org/10.7183/0002-7316.79.3.487
This is a nice theory, but we can now see this is not how it played out in the EU. EU does have better bargaining power, but not everybody has gained. The larger states have been able to extract even more value from the growing bargaining power, while smaller states have lost all their ability for negotiation.
Digital data are only a tiny part of the influx of information that people interact with. It's the same error platforms made with releasing movies straight to their services. Yes, people watch more movies at home, but going to cinemas is a whole experience that encompasses more than just watching a movie. Yes, books are great, but traveling and tutoring is much more impactful.
> seems that the EU as a single block is almost finished

you're drawing some pretty far-fetched conclusions here

Germany and France have always been the core of the EU (and its founding members).
What was the "lucky" part? The article claims that Bezos learned that web usage was growing 2300% a year (public knowledge), decided to sell stuff on the web, made a list of 20 potential products, and decided that books were the one where an online store could best compete. Is that wrong? It makes it sound like the particular way Bezos was lucky was by happening to be smart, smarter than the rest of us who were paying attention to what was going on. But it sounds like you're saying there was some other form of luck involved. What was it?
Last I heard Bluesky was contemplating a paid app with enhanced features and also some rumors about hosted domains. They haven't ruled out ads. I'm not sure where that landed and how far along that process they are. The most I know about the situation is this interview [1] here on TechCrunch.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/05/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-is-...
You're being intentionally obtuse and I'm not interested in engaging with it any further.
It makes me unreasonably angry when I see disposable vape litter. Such a waste of valuable resources. I’d love to see disposable electronics and disposable lithium batteries strongly discouraged everywhere.
Legislation, if you can’t compete on merit then regulate.
Dell makes fine computers but you need to pay the premium. The XPS laptops are fine.
I don't think they really want Kazakhstan in the EU either, but the rule that "the country must be in Europe" isn't needed to keep them out. (Most of Kazakhstan is in Central Asia, but a small sliver is in Europe, by the standard geographical definition.)
maybe it was offen? i remember seeing it a while ago but i don’t know of any sites using it. https://www.offen.dev/
Clinton kind of finished the job which killed what remained of US industry, but we cannot ignore the role that Carter played to deregulate many industries (though some of the deregulation was good), as well as Carter's appointment of Paul Volcker, whose interest rate hike shocked the US into embracing trade deficits and empowered China to take up on lost US manufacturing. Nixon's 1973 shock left Carter with the stagflation which put him in the situation to begin with, so his political wins came at a horrific economic cost, and ended up blowing back at us in the end.
> Schengen has independent of the EU status.

Schengen governs border controls, not the right to work and residency, which is a function of EU membership, not Schengen membership.
Just because success is unlikely, we shouldn't try for it?

There are a lot of ideas that sound good. Far fewer that are good. Being able to tell the difference makes it much more likely that you're on a plausible path to success.

Another way to see the point is to remember that it is better to make something that a few people really want than that a lot of people would like a little bit. An app is more likely to fit that bill than a platform.
They had quipu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu) as fairly extensive civil records. The Spanish colonizers destroyed most of them out of a belief they were religious objects.
I did wonder if cheap and ubiquitous casual DNA sequencing could tilt things in the phages favor. So perhaps it’s a matter of time. But beyond that I don’t know the tradeoffs beyond a few YouTube videos.
If Dell really wants, they can use Windows Platform Binary Table (WPBT) to install their bloatware on a clean install of windows too. I think most OEMs don't use that for all of their bloat though.
They show that they're storing the ULIDs as text. Quoting from the article:

CREATE TABLE ulid_test(id TEXT);

I suspect their poor results come from their choice of ULID implementation. The native C implementation I tried out is faster than the Postgres UUID type when testing computation only.

I noticed a bug in their test: They call generate_ulid() with now(). But now() is an alias for transaction_timestamp(), which is computed once at the start of the transaction, so all the timestamps will be the same. They should be using clock_timestamp().
The TV doesn't have a deterministic failure mode. Currently batteries just don't last forever.

Unless they happen to be LTO but that would make a phone like three times bulkier.

If a TV has something like flash memory wear issues, it absolutely should make the part that wears into a microSD or m.2 card.
In that video, Gore said that, in the aftermath of the cold war, we should "step up to the plate" and provide leadership. He didn't say anything about wars or even the military, only Bush did!

This was during a period where there was hope for the former Soviet Union to become a free and open democracy with tremendous economic potential, not to mention the smaller, former Soviet states. Instead, we're right back where we were, with an imperialist Russia and puppet governments.
Ask HN: Is the job market much better in tech cities like SF than remote?
Trying to figure out if I need to move or not.

I was lucky enough to build a life in an affordable part of the country and have made many friends and connections here.

That said, the job market is trash, and if I dont find something soon-ish, I will have to move.

If I were to move to an SF/Austin/NYC type city, is the job market for in person roles much better? Or will I be just as out of luck there as here?
Perhaps it does. "This is just bizarre" doesn't do much to promote curious conversation, though. Maybe say what you think is wrong with it?

(I mean, sure, you're saying it's self-evident what's wrong with it. And, to many people, maybe it is. Your words are still a shallow dismissal, though.
And farming in winter!
Show HN: Colada for Claude – Get past your Claude limits using your own API key
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I actually enjoy Claude.ai's interface and artifacts implementation. I didn't want to lift and shift over to another LLM tool. So, to get past the daily limits, I decided to build a simple Chrome extension which continues conversations using your own Anthropic API key.

In short:

• Get past Claude.ai conversation limits (click on pineapple emoji the to activate Colada)
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What I find most maddening about it is that the batteries are technically rechargeable! The vapes just aren't configured to support it. (And the presence of nicotine "juice" in the vape - especially if it's been damaged, e.g. by being run over in a gutter - makes them difficult to recycle safely.)
It's about Kary Mullis. I was trying to remember if Duesberg had won a Nobel.
I feel like twitter / x being called dead has happened a lot since Elon's purchase (they fired folks which lead to claims to was going to be going down etc etc).

Is this really the case now that it's dead (for real)? Are folks going back to NBC/MSNBC etc for news?
Describes my father who voted for Anderson. He didn’t trust Reagan at all
> while it's not as bad as people dropping cigarette butts on the street (usually literally directly next to a bin!)

People are spitting on the streets here in the UK and it's disgusting.

But I've noticed it on transport here in the UK. They take a puff "cheeky-vape" then exhale it under in to their coat or in to some bag.
I can take any two data points to prove any point I want. That's not how statistics work.

The Arctic is expected to be ice free by 2027. That is what matters when it comes to shipping.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/12/04/an-ice-free-arctic...
Losing money to enter a market requires a lot of money. This generally only happens in a big company, which is the current market where no one cares about being open or hackable, or VC funding, which has historically been anti-open and anti-hackable in the long run. VC money has made first or second generation products which are in that direction but longer term has not had a great record.

I think Raptor’s plan was/is the right one but the market of consumers who will pay extra to get that openness is quite small.

Framework is close. They’ve had a LOT of VC money.
>Republicans have always been pro-immigrant because it's inherently pro-business. They just have to do a song and dance routine for the low IQ racist cohort of their constituency to make it seem like they're tough on it.

It has consistently been about illegal immigration.

You are calling people "low IQ" and "Idiots" and you, literally in this very post, show you are falling for the same thing they fell for.
The people working on it will still be allowed to move companies and people talk to each other informally. These Chinese groups working on this with far fewer GPUs appear to be getting 10x results tbh. Maybe they have more GPUs than claimed but we’ll see.
This is the fantasy that is commonly perpetuated but it is the opposite to reality.
What if the AGI takes an entire data center to process a few tokens per second. Is the still a first-arriver advantage? Seems like the first to make it cheaper than an equivalent-cost employee (fully loaded incl hiring and training) will begin to see advantage.
Mass media was clearly on th side of cooling and anyone trying to argue anything else looks like an idiot to anyone with a memory. And mass media had plenty of science people to quote. (this is of course different from what science showed but almost nobody knows that - what we see on the media is reality)
If read in context, and ancient style, it's one of the most consistent works ever made given how many authors it had over what time period. It tells the "story of redemption" of God making man for a relationship, man betraying God, God redeeming man by literally dying at our hands, God continuing to drag His unfaithful partners to the finish line, and God spending eternity showing us undeserved love.

God's main requirement is to put faith in Christ and repent to enter a relationship with Him. His friends get forgiveness and grace, enemies get justice and wrath. From there, He dwells inside us to change us into what He wants. He rewards every good work He equips us for. He also disciplines our failures, like adopted sons and daughters, to keep us on the right path. He is gracious.

While telling that redemptive story, God's Word weaves together much testimony to teach us almost everything we need to know about life: God's/man's nature, God's laws/design, repeating patterns of man's behavior, different genres, prophecy/miracles for confirmation, and promises for the future. That the same message got the same results in thousands of people groups, peacefully, shows its universal power.

You wondered how to interpret it in an accurate way. Our church follows the historical-grammatical, or literal, method. We ask: who is speaking, what do their specific words mean, in what context, and for what reason then? And how does that apply today? And what do other passages say about the same topic in their context?

https://www.givethemlife.com/studying/originalcontext.html

I'll leave you with that site in case it helps answer some of your questions. It's really the work Christ did that saves us, changes us, etc. Our actions help us live more effectively while on Earth. Every decision has an impact in eternity, too, as God will render to each for their works.

Since He promises answers, I suggest reading John's Gospel in ESV (good translation) while asking who Jesus Christ really is. You have to be humble and open to hear Him, though.
> There is no technical moat in this field

This is getting so repetitive now that it is stated as a truism.

Isn't it the same bet yahoo was betting on in 2000 that it would win because their product branding is better? And now, Yahoo's and Microsoft's search engine is worse than Google from 2 decades ago.
Correction: all they need to succeed is unimaginable sums of money and the ironclad right to assimilate every work ever created by humanity without compensation. Who could refuse such a modest request?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/08/ai-tools-...
Solar water heaters reduce the fossil fuel that would be used to heat the water, reducing CO2 emissions very slightly, and therefore can be part of the climate change solution.
Good points, but at least it was more than what US bankers got.
Trump followers alone is nowhere near enough to win an election in the USA. It was somewhat easy to win this election. you had post-Covid economy coupled with half-senile 80+ year old grandpa who was replaced by a candidate not a soul voted for.

however, when you are up for re-election (and midterms as 1/2-way gauge of how the country thinks you are doing) the buck stops with you. there is no “booo, it is not my fault” etc - american voter is not dumb in this regard.

- responsible for deaths of 100’s of thousands of people - you, the President

- locked everyone up for months in their homes for months, you, the President

- locked kids out of school for months - you, the President

- high un-employment - you, the President

- increased deficit more than anyone could even possible fathom - you, the President

- …

the buck stops with you. core MAGAs might still fall for “anti-wokeness” but that will get you a loss by many millions of votes to an already half-senile grandpa (see 2020) :)
A huge percentage of energy is used for household heating, solar water heaters were definitely a potential contributor to solving global warming (and other concerns of the day like air pollution, acid rain (solved!), peak oil (not a problem as it turns out), or just reducing oil dependency in general).

Solar electricity has become much, much, cheaper and more efficient since then, and heatpumps have made electric heating much more efficient, so solar hot water doesn't look like it's going to be the future (though new installations do still happen today, despite the advances in solar electric). It wasn't a bad bet at the time though.
LOL. I, for one, do _not_ welcome our new AI overlords in the US.
None of that would matter if they could find the holy grail though.
There aren't "sides" to one country invading another country any more than there are "sides" to you forcing your neighbors at gun point to get on a bus to live in another city so you can sell their house.
Hardly metadata is still metadata, though.
Data is becoming a commodity in this regard. That can't be really their moat when Google, Anthropic, etc are publishing similar products.
Water heating is a sgnifant use of energy so an easy convert to solar there would be significant. Alone not enough of course but still significant
"I've said it before and people here don't seem to believe it, but there isn't as much "partisan" news where I'm from. No reputable newspaper will report positively when Wilders talks about banning the muslims if he makes it into the coalition or something."

I have no clue who Wilders is or what he represents, but if I read you correctly, just by applying logic, your second sentence seems to directly contradict your first sentence.
The subject to change bit is what’s getting me.

After paying probably over £1400 for Netflix in 11 years, you’re rewarded with the films you want leaving, having half of a box set starting half way through. That said, in purchasing media, you’d only get 1 film a month, maybe 2, for the cost of a Netflix sub…

I’ve only seen one album get removed from Spotify since I started using it, so the landscape there is a bit more universal. You want music, it’s on Apple, Spotify, etc.

You want a movie… well. Might be on Netflix, or moved to Disney+. Oh yay, it’s on Prime Video, but on no, it’s for bloody rent.

This is why piracy will continue. If we had a Spotify of Movies, which is what Netflix was, people would pay.

I’ve seen a lot of folks on other forums say that a lot of their classic favourites aren’t on any service (people wanting to watch over the holidays), so resorted to the DVD.
You should also count that in order to refuel the ship needs to take a longer route
they should join USA instead
Ignoring [the AIDS epidemic] is putting it mildly, IMO
What about typical AA and AAA batteries? They’ve been everywhere for decades.

Are they really more sustainable that these one-time -used lithium ones?
Look at the other replies to my comment, Americans don't know it exists either.
Anyone using Linux can also try OpenSnitch, which is free to own: https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch
> by using platform Y instead of Z does not exempt one from being political

That’s… exactly what I was saying with “ any platform that uses decentralization as a selling point is inherently political”…
A firewall is actually less powerful than an algorithmic feed that does the state's bidding.
My view of the future is that Israel’s borders will probably continue to expand opportunistically for the forseeable future. This is a doctrine known as Greater Israel.

At some point the Egypt-Israel relationship could deteriorate and Israel could expand in that direction again.

Overall expansionist/conquest urges are back in with Russia, US under Trump and Israel. We will probably see China also get into the act.
> invites all types of professional bullshitters and propagandists and let them go without the slightest pushback which is pretty disturbing

Do you also say the same thing about traditional journalists, who could also be easily labeled professional bullshitters and propagandists?

I don’t find Lex’s approach disturbing at all. It’s only disturbing to those threatened by new information or different opinions or free speech in general. I find his conversations explore relevant topics surrounding a guest effectively.
Arizona's Tiny Taipei: How a Taiwanese Chip Factory Seeded a Community
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Same here. But the older version are rock solid, and have very low power draw for office/browsing, which is really nice.
Currently TikTok is the only one that is not heavily skewed to promote state-approved content.
I wanted to present it as - “Msty As x Alternative”. But I think maybe I like Compare better. I will think about changing it. Thank you for the suggestion.
People are getting poorer while rich are getting richer, any government that would try to fight on piracy is just asking to get ousted.

That's why countries like Russia for instance are so lackluster on piracy, they sure have ways to monitor their citizens but they know very well that you don't mess with entertainment.

Romans knew that thousands of years ago, you would have to be the biggest bell end to not understand that.

> five people were jailed for more than 30 years for selling subscriptions to illegal streaming networks.

Rapist get between 10 and 20 in my country, murder is around 20 and only assassination is getting to 30. In what civilized countries is selling illegal streaming subscription worth 30 years of jail ?

After searching internet, Seems like they were 5 and each got around 6 years, so it's 30 years total. Makes more sense, don't know if the wording was bad or my brain tired.
Calling vaping safer without there being any good evidence for that is quite a stretch. However I despise this pure resource waste. Can we just stop that instead while we investigate the effects of inhaling burning copper and plastic?
RapDv – Rapid Development Framework
Trump wont deliver on any of promises (seriously, who can cause deflation? And tariffs?) so it is just cheap substitute topic.
In several cases I've been wanting better prompt adherence.

Llama 3.2 Vision is very strictly trained to output a summary at the end which I find difficult to get it stop doing for example.

Another one is that when given a math problem and asked to generate some code that computes the result, most models outputs code fine but insists on doing calculations themselves even if the prompt explicitly say they shouldn't. As expected, sometimes these intermediate calculations are incorrect and hence I don't want the LLM to do that when the produced code would handle it perfectly. If the input prompt contains "four times five" I want the model to generate "4 * 5" rather than "20", consistently.

I've been curious to see if I could tune them to adhere better to the kind of prompts I would be giving.

For LLama 3.2 Vision I've also been curios if I can get it to focus on different details when asked to describe certain images. In many cases it is great but sometimes misses some key aspects.

As for the input training material, that's what I'm trying to figure out what I need. I feel a lot of the guides are like that "how to draw an owl" meme[1], leaving out some crucial aspects of the whole process. Obviously I need input prompts and expected answers, but how many, how much variation on each example, and do I need to include data it was already trained on to avoid overfitting or something like that? None of the guides I've found so far touch on these aspects.

[1]: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-to-draw-an-owl